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WEB08 December 2023. The 1976 album Joy, featuring Jim Dvorak and Ernest Mothle, has been recognised as Jazz Best Archive/Reissue Of The Year.
Shelly Berg: Alegría - Jazz Journal
WEB5 hours ago · 2. This is the eighth album as leader from Miami-based pianist and composer Berg, who’s famed for accompanying numerous leading singers. Nine of the 11 numbers are originals penned by him. The other two are arrangements of Lennon and McCartney’s I’ll Follow The Sun and Leonard Bernstein’s Somewhere. The album’s title means joy …
Gabriela Martina: States - Jazz Journal
WEB4 hours ago · 2. This album has a wide variety of mood music, based loosely on the theme of states – both states of mind and the United States of America where Martina has been living and is now leaving. The Swiss-born singer has composed seven tracks ranging from wild, staccato tracks like Full Circle, complete with a rapper, to gentle pastoral music like ...
Louis Armstrong: Louis In London - Jazz Journal
WEB1 day ago · In 1968 Armstrong was enjoying a level of success so unlikely that few could equal it. What A Wonderful World, reprised here in a version minus the strings and choir heard on the his single and accordingly rendered more poignant, was keeping the likes of Otis Redding and the Beatles off the top of what could then be called the UK hit parade.
Sylvain Daniel: SlyDee - Jazz Journal
WEB1 day ago · Frenchman Sylvain Daniel is a pop and jazz musician, a designation that might suggest entirely separate activities. His latest album is by turns relentlessly metronomic and heavily laden but melodious, a result not unexpected from a basic quintet that calls on a variety of electronic keys as well as a solo trumpet, flugelhorn and, in one instance, alto sax.
European Jazz Conference no. 10, Ghent - Jazz Journal
WEB2 days ago · The European Jazz Conference is held in a different country each year. This year – a special one, its 10th birthday – it took place in Ghent, one of the most beautiful cities in Belgium. It’s a creation of the Europe Jazz Network, an organisation of jazz promoters and organisations, itself over 20 years old. Ghent is a splendid location ...
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WEBSep 16, 2023 · Natasha Blackwood: Love Songs For Good Machines. Ian Lomax - 09 September 2024. Canadian singer and saxophonist is on the edge of jazz in a set recalling Stacey, Kent, Melody Gardot, Madeleine Peyroux and Joni Mitchell.
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Jazz in review: 2020 - Jazz Journal
WEBJan 5, 2021 · The good: New discoveries: The Majamisty Trio from Serbia, Dezron Douglas and Brandee Young in Harlem lockdown, Ian McGimpsey and Harrison Argatoff from Ontario, and – new to me, at least – Julia Hülsmann from Germany and the wondrous guitarist Mary Halvorson from Massachusetts. The continuing creative strength of Ahmad Jamal, Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids and Kahil El’Zabar, and the ...
London Jazz Festival back to strength
WEBSep 18, 2021 · Photo by Andrés Pino. After a perforce quieter year in 2020 the EFG London Jazz Festival is largely back to strength this year, running 12-21 November with plenty of live shows. Among the many highlights are Julian Lage; Richard Bona & Alfredo Rodriguez Band; Archie Shepp & Jason Moran; John Scofield and …
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